| Front | Götterdämmerung \guh(r)-tuhr-DEH-muh-rung or guh(r)-turh-DA-muh-rung\ |
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| Back | noun Complete destruction of an institution, regime, order, etc. [From German Götterdämmerung (twilight of the gods), from Götter, plural of Gott (god) + Dämmerung (twilight). Götterdämmerung was the name of the last of Richard Wagner's four operas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). The German word Götterdämmerung is a translation of the Old Norse Ragnarök which in Scandinavian mythology refers to the destruction of the gods in a battle with evil, resulting in the end of the world. The term Ragnarök is from regin (gods) + rok (fate, course) confused by some with Ragnarökkr (literally, twilight of the gods).] "What began as the exuberant union of two college-age strivers is coming to a devastating end after 18 years, and the Gotterdammerung is being fought out not in court but inside the couple's perfect house." - Michelle Green; Dirty Divorcing; People (New York); Feb 19, 1990. |
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